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Feb. 21, 1956 R. P. GUDGEON LAUNDRY PRESSES Filed Sept. 23 1950 3 Sheets-Sheet 1 WWW Feb. 21, 1956 p, GUDGEON 2,735,201

LAUNDRY PRESSES Filed Sept. 23 1950 3 Sheets-Sheet 2 [/VVEA TO/Q 30/70 /c/ Percy gadyeo Feb. 21, 1956 R. P. GUDGEON 2,735,201

LAUNDRY PRESSES Filed Sept. 23, 1950 5 Sheets-Sheet 3 [WWW/u.

Uied States Paten F LAUNDRY PRESSES Ronald Percy Gudgeon, Luton, England, assignor to Brown & Green Limited, Luton, England, a British company Application September 23, 1950, Serial No. 186,435 1 Claim. (CI. 38-21) The present invention relates to presses suitable for pressing garments such as shirts, jackets, coats, etc., and has as itsobject to provide a pivotal mounting of bucks, that is to say press tables, which permits intimate contact of each buck with the press head of the press and permits irregularities in the thickness of the difiering portions of a garment placed upon the bucks.

The invention is applicable to any laundry garment press such for example as a rotary type press or a jawtype press. In the case of a rotary press one press table consists of the normal body buck with, if desired, a collar block at one end and the other press table comprises a plurality of bucks according to the invention for receiving diiierent portions of two garments simultaneously. In the case of a jaw-type garment press the single press table comprises the press table divided up into the plurality of bucks and such a press would be used in co-operation with a second jaw type press embodying a normal body buck.

In the accompanying drawings there are shown two embodiments of the invention as applied to a shirt press, together with diagrammatic representations of a possible sequence of operations when shirts are pressed therewith. In these drawings:

Figure 1 is a plan view of a press table according to the invention;

Figure 2 is a perspective view of the press table shown in Figure 1;

Figure 3 is a perspective view of a modified form of the press table shown in Figure 2;

Figures 4 to 9 show diagrammatically the sequence of operations of pressing shirts using the press table shown in Figures 1 and 2; and

Figures 10 and 11 illustrate the pressing operations corresponding to Figures 6 and 8 when using the modified form of press table shown in Figure 3.

Referring to the drawings, a press table comprises a base 1 upon which is secured a support 2 upon which is freely pivotally mounted by means of a bolt 2a extending therethrough a pair of arms 3 and 4 adapted to support pressing bucks 5, 6 and 7. The bucks 5, 6 and 7 are freely pivotally mounted upon the arms 3 and 4 by means of bolts 50, 6a and 7a respectively to ensure intimate contact of each buck with the press head of a press and to allow for inequalities in the thickness of garments placed upon the bucks.

The centre buck 6 is roughly of rectangular shape having the ends 8 and 9 thereof slightly curved outwardly as shown in the drawing. The two outer bucks and 7 are equally shaped and are provided with inwardly directed bulges 10 and 11 at the centre of their inner edges and lying towards the centre buck 6, and recesses 12 and 13 on their outer edges.

The bulges 10 and 11 are so dimensioned as to support fully the collar of a shirt as shown for example in Figure 6. While the recesses 12 and 13 permit the collar to be turned down below the pressing surface during the press ing of a full yoke as shown for example in Figure 4.

2,735,201 Patented Feb. 121, 1956 buck and thereby hold the collar firmly in position upon' the buck.

In the modified form of press table shown in Figure 3, the parts are identical with those of Figures 1 and 2 with the exception of the centre buck 17 which is formed with a pair of centrally directed recesses 1-8 and 19 extending from the centre of each side of the buck. These recesses enable half sleeve portions of the shirt to be laid upon the buck for the purpose hereinafter described.

A method of pressing shirts employing such press tables in combination with a press table of conventional design is diagrammatically illustrated in Figures 4 to 9. In this method, four shirts are undergoing diiferent stages of pressing at the same time and the process is divided into six loadings or positioning of the shirts upon the bucks, by which means two shirts are completely finished at every sixth loading. The loadings are as follows:

Loading 1 (Figure 4).Two shirts Aand B are applied to the outer bucks 5 and 7 respectively so that the yokes of the shirts lie upon the surface of the bucks, the collars being turned down below the pressing surface in the recesses 12 and 13. At the same time, the cuffs of each shirt are laid upon the centre buck 6, the remaining portions of the shirt falling in the spaces between the bucks. The press table is then presented to the pressing head for the pressing operation.

Loading 2 (Figure 5 ).Whilst loading 1 is undergoing pressing, two further shirts C and D are laid upon a conventional bosom-body buck shown at 20 having the usual collar block 21 at one end thereof. The shirts are laid upon the buck so that the bosom of shirt C and the back of shirt D are presented to the pressing head.

Loading 3 (Figure 6 ).Whilst loading 2 is undergoing pressing, shirts A and B are relaid on the bucks so that the collar and neck band portion of shirt A is supported around the bulge 10 of buck 5 and held in position thereon by means of the knobs 16 while the sleeves of shirt B are laid upon buck 6, the cuffs hanging over the curved edge thereof.

Loading 4 (Figure 7 ).Whilst loading 3 is undergoing pressing shirts C and D are reversed on buck 20 i. e. so that the back of shirt C and the bosom of shirt D are presented to the pressing head.

Loading 5 (Figure 8).During the pressing operation of loading 4, shirts A and B are reversed from their position in loading 3 i. e. the sleeves of shirt A are laid upon buck 6 and the collar and neck band portion of shirt B supported around the bulge 11 of buck 7.

Loading 6 (Figure 9).During the pressing of loading 5, shirts C and D are laid upon the buck 20 as indicated to have their folded or doubled sides pressed.

This completes the sequence of operations which can be employed either with a rotary type of press having a set of bucks according to the invention and a conventional type bosom-body buck, or with a pair of jaw presses one of which has a set of bucks according to the invention gndkthe other of which has a conventional bosom-body At the completion of loading 6, shirts C and D which, prior to the commencement of the sequence of loadings described above will have already passed through loadings 1, 3 and 5, are completely pressed while shirts A and B will pass through loadings 2, 4 and 6 of the subsequent sequence of loadings. The shirts could of course pass through loadings 2, 4 and 6 first but in this case the already pressed body portions of the shirts would of necessity become creased when passing through loadings 1, 3 and 5 and for this reason it is preferred that the shirts should pass first through loadings 1, 3 and 5.

In using the modified form of buck shown in Figure 3, loadings 3 and 5 are modified as shown in Figures 10 and 11. In loading 3 (Figure 10) shirts A and B are both placed each with the collar and neckband portion upon bucks 5 and 7 and the bottom half sleeves upon buck 17, the cuffs being allowed to hang in the recesses 18 and 19. In loading 5 (Figure 11) the top half sleeves of shirts A and B are laid upon buck 17 while the bottom half sleeves hang through the recesses 18 and 19.

, Obviously other loadings and sequence of loadings may be employed with the bucks according to the present inventionand' when the garment to be pressed is a coat or jacket, other loadings and sequence of loadings than those described will be employed to suit the shape of the garment.

Whilst in the preferred form the yoke and collar bucks have been described as being shaped to have certain bulges and recesses to ensure complete pressing of the garment below the neck band or collar these yoke and collar bucks may merely be formed with a curvature on their edges facing the centre buck in which case a careful positioning of the garment by the operator is relied upon. Conveniently all the bucks may be formed on a curve to fit a corresponding and matching curve in the pressing j-surfaceot the press head.

What we claim is:

In a garment press, a press table comprising a buck supporting arm pivotally secured intermediate the length thereof to the table for pivotal movement about a substantially horizontal axis, a plurality of bucks supported on said arm, each of said bucks being mounted for pivotal movement about a horizontal axis extending parallel to the pivotal aXis of the arm, and pressing surfaces on said bucks adapted to receive respectively portions of a garment, the said pivotal mounting of the bucks ensuring intimate contact of each buck with the press head of the press and permitting irregularities in the thickness of the different portions of a garment placed upon the bucks.

leferences Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 1,141,902 Palmer June 1, 1915 1,896,479 Carroll Feb, 7-, 1933 2,050,618 Mall Aug. 11, 1936 2,050,627 Patterson Aug. 11, 1936 2,132,562 Friedman Oct. 11, 1938 2,202,483 Dewey May 28, 1940 2,210,033 Holder Aug. 6, 1940 2,214,178 Reynolds Sept. 10, 1940 2,325,907 Downer et a1. Aug. 3, 1943 2,464,857 Forse Mar. 22, 1949 

